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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant · Elias Theodorou vs Thiago Santos
From the tape · 10 Dec 2015

Elias Theodorou vs Thiago Santos

UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Thiago Santos beat Elias Theodorou

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

ET
Red corner EliasTheodorou“The Spartan”Mississauga, Ontario
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner ThiagoSantos“Marreta”Team Marreta · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight3 rounds10 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Santos’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
16-3
Record
22-11
−4 yr27
Age
31
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+25
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+33%3/3100% of wins
Mississauga, Ontario
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Elias Theodorou14 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 40BODY64%9 of 17LEGS36%5 of 14
Thiago Santos8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 8BODY12%1 of 3LEGS75%6 of 10
14 of 71
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstDave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Elias Theodorou11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 4BODY64%7 of 7LEGS18%2 of 2
Thiago Santos24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 13BODY33%8 of 9LEGS21%5 of 5
11 of 13
Sig.
strikes
24 of 27
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:22
Control
0:34
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 15Ground 1
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstDave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elias Theodorou3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 5BODY67%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Thiago Santos20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 23BODY45%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 10
Sig.
strikes
20 of 33
0 of 9
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
0:20
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 15Ground 1
Judges · this round · Theodorou firstDave Hagen8–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Glenn Trowbridge8–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Elias TheodorouThiago Santos
Official totals — Elias Theodorou first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide27–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 15 scored, Elias Theodorou first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–29
MM AJunkie.com27–29
MM AMania.com27–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Young CombatPress.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Santos · 67%29-27 Santos · 18%29-28 Theodorou · 6%

33 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Elias Theodorou

1.27takedowns / 15 min
1.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.88 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.67 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Thiago Santos

0.88takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Elias Theodorou↓ −1.1pp
open 67.9%close 66.8%
Thiago Santos↑ +1.1pp
open 32.1%close 33.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elias Theodorou opened at 67.9% and closed at 66.8% (−1.1pp), with Thiago Santos moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Elias Theodorou-270-22767.9%66.8%−1.1pp
Thiago Santos19019032.1%33.2%+1.1pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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